Seminars

WFCB Seminar Series
When: Wednesdays, 4:10 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Where: Foster Room, First Floor Meyer Hall

Interested in presenting? Please contact Daniel Karp (dkarp@ucdavis.edu)

January 17, 2024

Austin Spence
Postdoctoral Scholar, Karp Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Talk: Pathogen survival in avian fecal samples on farms is directly related to size, not species

Laura Kojima
PhD Student, Rypel Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Talk: Integrating Mercury Concentrations in American Alligators with Hunter Consumption Surveys to Estimate Exposure Risk

Networking session
Students, postdocs, and faculty will have a chance to gather and chat!

February 7, 2024

Julian Tattoni
PhD Student, Karp Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Talk: Shifts in seabird colony composition with 40 years of climate change along the New Jersey shoreline

Nann Fangue
Professor and Chair, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Talk: Culture, transport, and population supplementation methods to support conservation of an endangered estuarine fish

February 28, 2024

Karen Gallardo Cruz
PhD Student, Karp Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Group in Ecology
Talk: Examining the effect of helicopter noise on bird assemblages in Hawai'i's protected natural areas.

Lee Burrows
PhD Student, Todd Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Talk: Age, Growth, and Origin of kokanee in California Lakes

Mia Lippey
PhD Student, Rosenheim and Meineke Labs, Department of Entomology
Talk: One landscape does not fit all: Complex arthropod responses to surrounding land use in California citrus

March 13, 2024

Kendall Calhoun
Postdoctoral Scholar, Smith Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Talk: Conserving California's wildlife communities in the age of tegafire

John Bailey
Director, University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center
Talk: Wildlife research history and opportunities at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center